Two weeks after the suicide of a JP Morgan banker who
jumped to his death from the top of a building, another of the firm’s
employees has died, with 37-year-old Ryan Henry Crane becoming the 5th
banker fatality in just the last few weeks alone.
Crane was an Executive Director in JPM’s Global Program Trading desk based in New York and had been with the firm for 14 years.
Few details have been released concerning the nature of his death, with reports merely stating that Crane is survived by his wife and son.
“We can only hope this disturbing chain of deaths within
the financial industry – one of which involved a nail-gun induced
suicide – is purely accidental,” writes Zero Hedge.
Some have speculated that the deaths could be a
precursor to a major financial collapse, although no hard evidence of a
connection has been forthcoming.
Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old senior manager at JP Morgan’s European headquarters, jumped 500ft from the top of the bank’s headquarters in central London on January 27, landing on an adjacent 9 story roof.
A few days later, Mike Dueker, the chief economist at
Russell Investments, fell down a 50 foot embankment in what police
described as a suicide. Dueker was reported missing on January 29 by
friends, who said he had been “having problems at work.”
On January 26, former Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit
was found dead at his South Kensington home after police responded to
reports of a man found hanging at a house. According to reports, Broeksmit had “close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain.”
Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was also found dead last week after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at
Swiss Re AG, also died last month, although the circumstances
surrounding his death are still unknown.
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